Yup my wife is a PT. Her clinic shut down for about 6 weeks in March/April of last year while everyone was trying to figure out how bad this pandemic might be, but then they went back face-to-face for 8 hours per day 5 days per week from then, on. They had a couple of students doing rotations in their clinic and they came back, as well.
Interesting. Did any staff / students test + ?
At my daughter's clinical internship in Tucson in January/February 2021, she received an early vaccination late January and fully in February. It was a hospital setting which had COVID PT patients, but she did not knowingly administer to them. She recounted she was helping someone not in the COVID unit, and she had an N-95 mask, as did her instructor, but my daughter was on the front end, and instructor behind the patient. The patient later tested + for COVID-19. My daughter didn't get it, but her clinical instructor had a break-through infection. The clinical instructor also administered to patients in the COVID unit wearing more PPE.
I think my daughter, as likely as not, contracted the virus in Dubuque before her clinical in Tucson. She was working her way through college at a large convenience store in Dubuque, contact with many customers, and it spread like wildfire amongst co-workers; some of her classmates also had it, and she was exposed in close quarters. I encouraged her to test, but she refused because if she tested - even if negative - the school would not let her in for two weeks. Crazy policy.
Forty percent of positives are estimated to be asymptomatic - I had it - I am no spring chicken - I was asymptomatic. Our 90-year old former neighbor contracted it in the nursing home and we were so worried, and went to her window, and she was asymptomatic, while we saw someone in a neighboring window to our right having trouble breathing.
